A Dedicated Volunteer

Volunteers are often the life blood of NGO’s. The Vancouver Aquarium’s Nikki Cloutier is 80 years old and has volunteered at the Aquarium for 44 years. She was in her kitchen one day in 1967 and there was “an appeal on the radio that if you were interested in children and animals, come have coffee at the Aquarium. No...

Vancouver Aquarium and Japan

Over the last 50 years the Vancouver Aquarium has developed enduring international ties with some of Japan’s greatest aquariums. The Fukushima Aquariu...

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup

Litter on our beaches not only looks ugly - marine and land life can get entangled in plastic debris, or choke on it when they mistake it for food.  Th...

Friendly Mascots

 “Mascot”, according to Wikipedia, means any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck and that represents a group with a common public iden...

Conservation in Action – Friday File

Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at Canada’s largest aquarium’s conservation activities – in the Friday File.  You can reach the Friday File by ei...

Conservation in Action

If you want a cool, behind-the-scenes look at Canada’s largest aquarium’s conservation activities, check out the Vancouver Aquarium’s Conservation in Action overview of their research programs.  The programs involve researching and helping...